Comment on The Trump White House Cited My Research to Justify Tariffs. They Got It All Wrong.

SteveCC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its methodology and cited an academic paper produced by four economists, including me, seemingly in support of their numbers. But they got it wrong. Very wrong. I disagree fundamentally with the government’s trade policy and approach. But even taking it at face value, our findings suggest the calculated tariffs should be dramatically smaller — perhaps one-fourth as large.”

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